database

This posting isn’t just a blog entry it is a magnum opus. TL;dr version is “don’t send the complete state of the system object downstream if the downstream systems are trying to deliver events”. It fits into EA (admittedly on the technical side of thin…

I was chatting with a friend yesterday about composability, events, and other distributed computing concepts.He is quite a fan of doing composition at the point of consumption. Using the idea of eating family style – a group of people, a common table a…

Private Database Cloud Services or Database as a Service (DBaaS) is no longer a new idea. In fact, it is quickly becoming the de facto standard for development and testing environments both on premises and in the public cloud. And while there are many use cases and deployment options, overall database total cost of ownership and business agility have benefited from a standardized approach to workload management. Whether you are a DBA, an operations manager, or a CIO, you are well aware that business-driven interest in social, mobile, big data, and internet of things have caused an explosion of development, data, and database workloads. The justification for database operations to pool resources and standardize services has never been clearer – watch this customer story (TRT1:30).

One way of thinking about an operational data store is to be a near real time repository of/for transactional data organized to support an essentially query workload against transactions within their operational life. This is particularly handy when yo…

One way of thinking about an operational data store is to be a near real time repository of/for transactional data organized to support an essentially query workload against transactions within their operational life. This is particularly handy when yo…

This posting was written in response to Eric Brewer’s excellent piece entitled CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have ChangedI have copied the statement of the theorem here to provide some context:The CAP theorem states that any networked shared-…

This posting was written in response to Eric Brewer’s excellent piece entitled CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have ChangedI have copied the statement of the theorem here to provide some context:The CAP theorem states that any networked shared-…

This posting was written in response to Eric Brewer’s excellent piece entitled CAP Twelve Years Later: How the “Rules” Have ChangedI have copied the statement of the theorem here to provide some context:The CAP theorem states that any networked shared-…